Fist Up to Books! We Will Shoot Back
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, by Akinyele Umoja (2013). Brother Akinyele Umoja, like myself,...
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I have a wonderful library, accumulated over the course of decades. Many books I’ve read; many I’ve not.
This blog series takes a look inside my library…
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Fist Up to Books! We Were Eight Years in Power
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). This is Ta-Nehisi’s treasury of riveting articles...
Fist Up to Books! The War Before
The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming A Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison and Fighting for Those Left Behind, by...
Fist Up to Books! Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman, Jr. (2017). The war on crime that began in the 1970s was...
Fist Up to Books! The Osiris Papers
The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, edited by Raymond Winbush and Denise Wright (2020)....
Fist Up to Books! Acts of Faith
Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color, 25th Anniversary Edition, by Iyanla Vanzant (2018, 1st edition 1993). I remember...
Fist Up to Books! Are We Better Off...?
I have a wonderful library, accumulated over the course of decades. Many books I’ve read; many I’ve not. This blog series takes a look...
Fist Up to Books! Chocolate City
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital, by Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove (2018). This...
Fist Up to Books! Ready for Revolution
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), by Stokely Carmichael with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell...
Fist Up to Books! Still on this Journey
What I’m reading now… Still on this Journey: The Vision and Mission of Dr. Ron Daniels (2019). I am so thrilled that Dr. Daniels’...
Fist Up to Books! Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-Determination
Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-Determination, by Herb Boyd (2017) Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the...
Fist Up to Books! The African American Entrepreneur, Then and Now
The African American Entrepreneur, Then and Now, by W. Sherman Rogers (2010). In this gem of a book Howard Law Professor Rogers explores...
Fist Up to Books! An Unlikely Warrior:
An Unlikely Warrior: Evolution of a Black Nationalist Revolutionary, Herman Ferguson by Iyaluua Ferguson with Herman Ferguson (2011)....
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